Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
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Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#2Highly likely Ireland is going to be against this but its going to be a lot harder to restrain many of the French governments more outlandish proposals when the Brits leave.
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#3This article is a bizarre set of weird talking points, trying to tie together a conspiratorial narrative through such breathless facts as:
> To lock down his influence in Brussels, Macron needs to make sure he has sufficient clout to weigh on commissioners’ nominations, an objective he can only achieve via a broad voting bloc in European Parliament. His centrist La République en Marche (LRM) party is at work forging alliances with like-minded groups in other EU countries, notably in Spain with the Ciudadanos party.
Yes. He's going to "lock down his influence" by ... finding like minded partners?
> To press his influence with other governments, Macron relies on Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire to conduct high-level diplomacy.
European Finance Ministers in "they talk to each other!" shocker
> Mahjoubi, who was hoisted to his current role after running the president-to-be’s digital campaign, has been more active lobbying the European Commission, frequently making the hour-and-twenty-minute train trip to Brussels to meet with top EU officials and stress French views on everything from the bloc’s artificial intelligence strategy to investment for startups.
The fuck is this crap? This article is really odd.
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#4And this is how FAANG ends up destroying democracy in Europe like our lobbyists destroyed our democracy in the US.
These words are dangerous to the life of these companies. I can easily see (trillion dollar) companies starting various forms of political donations in EVERY country.
Google cannot afford to lose its euro market, but google can afford to buy policies.
EDIT: Whats the criticism? For the first time in human history, money wont be able to buy politics?
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#5Disappointed that Macron is following the old french playbook here. Was under the impression that he was a more of a liberal guy.
Unfortunately german conservatives are useless when it comes to internet regulation (see "Mitstörerhaftung", making platforms and operators of wifi access points liable if their users commit crimes), not sure how much resistance can be expected.
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#6Disappointed that Macron is following the old french playbook here. Was under the impression that he was a more of a liberal guy. Unfortunately german conservatives are useless when it comes to internet regulation (see "Mitstörerhaftung", making platforms and operators of wifi access points liable if their users commit crimes), not sure how much resistance can be expected.
Mitstörerhaftung has lost it's bite, the latest court ruling makes network operators not responsible if someone commits a crime over their network. You might still get slapped with an order to block these sites but otherwise it's harmless now.
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#7And this is how FAANG ends up destroying democracy in Europe like our lobbyists destroyed our democracy in the US. These words are dangerous to the life of these companies. I can easily see (trillion dollar) companies starting various forms of political donations in EVERY country. Google cannot afford to lose its euro market, but google can afford to buy policies. EDIT: Whats the criticism? For the first time in huma…
Those words are essentially saying that France (and Europe) want to stop competing. Macrons words might put some inconvenience on Google et al. but the result will be that the US as a place to be for companies becomes even stronger.
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#8And this is how FAANG ends up destroying democracy in Europe like our lobbyists destroyed our democracy in the US. These words are dangerous to the life of these companies. I can easily see (trillion dollar) companies starting various forms of political donations in EVERY country. Google cannot afford to lose its euro market, but google can afford to buy policies. EDIT: Whats the criticism? For the first time in huma…
Too bad campaign contributions are heavily regulated in Europe. It's a bit harder to buy politicians here.
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#9This article is a bizarre set of weird talking points, trying to tie together a conspiratorial narrative through such breathless facts as: > To lock down his influence in Brussels, Macron needs to make sure he has sufficient clout to weigh on commissioners’ nominations, an objective he can only achieve via a broad voting bloc in European Parliament. His centrist La République en Marche (LRM) party is at work forging…
This was my feeling as well, the article tries really hard to incite some weird aggression based on a blurry case
Re: Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
#10One of the major concerns of EU skeptics has always been the ability (and the gall) to push ambitious acts of centralized control by like-minded European leaders. And more likely that big players like Google/FB will just buy off protections from mega-regulators than actually be "reigned in" as it always happens